Have been playing with the firewall settings (focussing on the 4 x spiceworks public/incoming connections) to no avail,

I can't see how the settings that currently allow PCs access to spiceworks can be altered to allow mac access, unless it is because the PCs are Admin domain members and although the spiceworks server is not, it does sync witht the admin AD for the Helpdesk.

Hi Nick, 'tis tre bizarre as the Cisco shouldn't actually be between the 2 points, the mac sits on the admin wireless, so traffic should simply go through the Meru controller, onto admin switch then straight to the spiceworks server.

Perhaps it is to do with your internal routing? Do the mac devices use a different DHCP server or have any different network settings? In particular check the default gateway. Also check for any proxy setting within the devices themselves, it could be that they are being forced via the firewall rather than making a direct connection to spiceworks (you might be able to exempt the spiceworks address in the proxy config).

ahem, err twas the proxy as suggested, I just got a new i7 macbookpro and I migrated my settings from the previous mbp and it was running like a dog, so as soon as the fresh install was done and wireless was connected i tried spiceworks and it was working, then i put in the proxy details and it stopped working, so i excluded the spiceworks server IP address and bingo, all is hunkydory.

Thanks Nick-C, you were spot on

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